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BIDEN & MEDIA tell Americans they deserve to suffer for not agreeing to green new deal w/ high gas prices! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: If you woke up this morning and you went to
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Speaker 1: get gas, you are paying the highest price we've ever
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Speaker 1: paid in the history of this country for gasoline. It's
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Speaker 1: more than yesterday, by the way, and there's no end
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Speaker 1: in sight. We also now know that the president of the
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Speaker 1: the United States of America is so weak that even
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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and the UAE leaders are purposefully ignoring Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden's phone calls to talk about oil production. And Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden is lying to the country, so are his advisors.
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Speaker 1: One of his advisors, standing in front of the White
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Speaker 1: House this morning, said this to you if you're struggling
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Speaker 1: to cover your bills. What I can tell you, though, Willie,
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Speaker 1: is even if we drilled as much as we could,
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Speaker 1: the price of oil is still set globally demand and
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Speaker 1: supply conditions, and much of that supply is controlled by
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Speaker 1: tyrants like Pooding. And again, that's why we have resolved
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Speaker 1: to speed our transition towards cleaner, more sustainable, and renewable
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Speaker 1: sources of energy. There it is, We're gonna lie to you.
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Speaker 1: Even if we drilled as much as we could, it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't affect the price of oil. That's a lie. The
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Speaker 1: price of oil is set globally, that is true, and
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Speaker 1: the more supply we have, the lower the prices go.
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Speaker 1: How do you think the President of United States of America,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, kept prices low for the entire four years
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Speaker 1: he was in office by actually being energy independent and yes,
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Speaker 1: putting our oil on the global market supply and watching
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Speaker 1: the numbers drop. Now the Biden administration is flat out
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Speaker 1: lying to you. Why are they doing this to exactly why?
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Speaker 1: Because they the Democrats, have an ideology that is based
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Speaker 1: on punishment for you. There's a very interesting point that
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Speaker 1: was made yesterday on Fox. Greg Gutfield said, the soaring
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Speaker 1: gas prices across the country aren't about what's happening Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: even though the present lied and yesterday said in Texas well,
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Speaker 1: the price of oil you need to blame Putin for that.
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Speaker 1: We know the prices have been going up since the
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Speaker 1: very first day was in office when he stopped the
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Speaker 1: Keystone XL pipeline. And he wants you to believe that
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Speaker 1: all of the high prices you're paying right now are
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Speaker 1: because of Russia and Ukraine and this conflict, this war,
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Speaker 1: this genocide as I would describe it. It's not that
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Speaker 1: Instead it is about an ideology of punishment until you submit.
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Speaker 1: They were discussing Biden and how he announced that he
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Speaker 1: was putting a stop quote to imports of Russian oil.
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Speaker 1: Why because he was responding too late to Russian present
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Speaker 1: Vitamir Putin invading Ukraine on February the twenty fourth. The
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Speaker 1: panel discussed how Biden is now trying to blame Russia
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Speaker 1: for the surgeon gas prices, even though only eight percent
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Speaker 1: of imports into this country are coming from Russia. This
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Speaker 1: could easily be absorbed if we were willing to roll more. Yes,
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Speaker 1: even if we hit up Canada for more oil, it
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Speaker 1: could help. But what this is about is the President
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Speaker 1: is framing the increase in cost of the pump has
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Speaker 1: quote a hardship that you, as an American must accept.
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Speaker 1: Biden said, defending freedom comes at a cost, and that
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Speaker 1: is not true. It's not true. It's the environmental clap
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Speaker 1: trap that comes at a cost. This is not about freedom.
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Speaker 1: There would be no cost if we didn't demonize drilling,
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Speaker 1: which is exactly what the left and Joe Biden have done.
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Speaker 1: If we didn't demonize pipelines, we wouldn't be shutting them down.
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Speaker 1: But that's what the left is done. If we didn't
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Speaker 1: demonize in general, or the left didn't demonize in general
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Speaker 1: fossil fuels, we wouldn't be in the scenario we are
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Speaker 1: right now. So it is not about defending Ukraine. It's
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Speaker 1: about exposing the destructiveness of the green ideology, which is
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Speaker 1: part of a larger ideology of punishment rich countries. Their
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Speaker 1: mentality is, can handle this, just pay more for gas.
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Speaker 1: It's the poor countries that are going to suffer, and
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Speaker 1: it's going to be poor people in the United States
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Speaker 1: of America that are suffering the most. So let's go
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Speaker 1: to late night TV for a moment. Late night TV
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Speaker 1: is mocking you. One of the hosts last night of
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Speaker 1: one of the late shows thought it would be funny
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Speaker 1: to tell you that he can pay fifteen dollars a
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Speaker 1: gallon for gas. He doesn't care why, because he's got
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Speaker 1: a tesla. Stephen Colbert on the US ban on Russian oil.
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Speaker 1: Take that vlad America doesn't need your klepto crude is
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Speaker 1: apparently the only way you need to describe it. This
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Speaker 1: is how ignorant the left actually is as they try
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Speaker 1: to sell this insanity. Now, Jimmy fallon on McDonald's closing
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Speaker 1: in Russia, saying quote, we don't want their oil and
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Speaker 1: they can't have our Greece, referring to McDonald's again. This
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Speaker 1: is all funny, right, This is all hilarious. Everybody just
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Speaker 1: laugh about it. Nothing to see here, It's all okay.
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Speaker 1: And this is what the left actually believes. They believe
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Speaker 1: that you have an obligation to suck it up and
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Speaker 1: go buy your fifty sixty seventy thousand dollars electric car,
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Speaker 1: and they're going to punish you until you do it,
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Speaker 1: because the Democratic Party is an ideology of punishment for
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Speaker 1: those that don't submit. It's no different than what we
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Speaker 1: just experienced with all the COVID, which is all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden just disappeared with fauci. Have you noticed that
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Speaker 1: Because there's an election coming, this isn't about defending Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: this isn't about Vladimir Putin. This is about forcing you
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Speaker 1: to pay more, and this is their opportunity to do it.
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Speaker 1: Twitter celebrities like George Taki are now saying you should
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Speaker 1: just pay more, and they're claiming that you should pay
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Speaker 1: more to quote support Ukraine. Well, guess what these scumbags
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Speaker 1: aren't truckers, they're not salesmen, they're not uber drivers. This
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Speaker 1: is the same detached mentality that we found ourselves with
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Speaker 1: the shutdowns. Everybody could handle a shutdown if they were
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Speaker 1: in the media, right because in the Hollywood movie stars
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Speaker 1: and the rich elie like Joe Biden, because everybody did
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Speaker 1: their jobs from home, from their living rooms. These are
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Speaker 1: the same people that tell us to live with it.
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Speaker 1: These are the same people, by the way, that can
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Speaker 1: live with anything. This is why you have arrogant people
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Speaker 1: in late night TV that say you can raise old
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Speaker 1: of fifteen dollars a gallon. It didn't bother me, right,
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Speaker 1: because they make millions of dollars and they drive a Tesla.
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Speaker 1: So it's either climate change or COVID or inflation. They
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Speaker 1: don't care. They want you to submit. There's an ideology
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Speaker 1: of punishment for those that don't submit, and if you
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Speaker 1: can't handle the punishment, that's your fault, because they are
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Speaker 1: in fact above it. Now the media is clamoring for
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Speaker 1: Biden to pass out more permits and leases right to
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Speaker 1: fix the costs at the pump, because they understand that
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Speaker 1: the American people are starting to wake up to this
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Speaker 1: and saying this is absurd. Yet at the same time
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Speaker 1: they're telling Americans that there's nothing and they're allowing this
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Speaker 1: propaganda to be put out there, that there's nothing that
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Speaker 1: we could do to change this or fix this. So
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Speaker 1: let's go back to how weak we are as a country.
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Speaker 1: Let's look at Saudi Arabia and the UAE leaders. They
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Speaker 1: are ignoring Biden when he's calling to talk to them
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Speaker 1: about gas prices. We now have confirmation that the leaders
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Speaker 1: of Saudi Arabia and the United Air of Emrates wouldn't
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Speaker 1: pick up the phone when President Biden try to call
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Speaker 1: them to discuss boosting oil exports to offset hikes linked
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Speaker 1: to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. According to new reports, we're
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Speaker 1: being told that the Saudi Crown Prince and the UAE
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Speaker 1: Chik declined Biden's attempts to an outreach to them. The
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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal has reported and confirmed there was some
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Speaker 1: expectation of a phone call, but it didn't happen. A
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Speaker 1: US official confirmed to the newspaper quote it was part
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Speaker 1: of a turning on the spicket of Saudi oil campaign.
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Speaker 1: I remember yesterday I told you, and it's in our podcast.
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Speaker 1: If you missed it about us releasing the twentieth hijacker
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Speaker 1: from Guantanamo Bay back to Saudi Arabia. You want to
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Speaker 1: know why we did that. It's because we now need
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Speaker 1: Saudi to give us more oil, and Saudi Arabia wanted
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Speaker 1: that terrorist back. Now. Biden, acting like he's doing some
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Speaker 1: great thing. On Tuesday morning, banned Russian oil imports and
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Speaker 1: said gasoline prices quote would increase even more after hitting
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Speaker 1: an all time high of four hours and seventeen cents
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Speaker 1: per gallon on average nationwide. And he said, look, it's
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Speaker 1: just going to happen if you either. There's not much
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Speaker 1: else I can do. That's a lie. We could open
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Speaker 1: the Keystone pipeline, we could do so much more. But instead,
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Speaker 1: what is Biden doing. He's attempting to woo an array
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Speaker 1: of horrific dictators around the country, around the world, I
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Speaker 1: should say, including a Ran Saudi Arabia Venezuela to offset
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Speaker 1: the impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on energy markets,
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Speaker 1: not having energy independence because he doesn't want that. Because
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Speaker 1: I go back to what I said a moment ago,
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Speaker 1: this is the Democratic Party's ideology of punishment. It is
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Speaker 1: no different than cancel culture. It's no different than COVID
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Speaker 1: nineteen lockdowns. There is an ideology of theirs that is
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Speaker 1: of punishment until you submit. There's also another aspect of
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Speaker 1: this entire story right now, and it's a media play.
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Speaker 1: I guess with a White House, they're trying to convince
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Speaker 1: you through the media that there's certain things they just
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Speaker 1: can't controlling, they can't do anything about. Joe Biden literally
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Speaker 1: shrugged off high gas prices yesterday saying, quote, I can't
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Speaker 1: do much right now. All right, So let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the facts real quick. For a guy that says it
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Speaker 1: can't do much right now, and for a White House
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Speaker 1: that says they can't control the price of gas, and
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Speaker 1: even if we were drilling more in America, it would
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Speaker 1: have no impact on gas prices. Let's do a little comparison.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, under Biden, America produced one point
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Speaker 1: one million barrels of oil per day, less than twenty
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Speaker 1: nineteen when Donald Trump was the present one point one
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Speaker 1: million barrels less per day. Now, to be clear, since
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Speaker 1: we're producing less than less oil one point one million
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Speaker 1: barrels per day than we did in two in nineteen,
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Speaker 1: you may want to know how many barrels on average
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Speaker 1: are we bringing into this country from Russia Russian oil.
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Speaker 1: We're only bringing in two hundred nine thousand barrels of
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Speaker 1: Russian all a day. So if you do two hundred
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Speaker 1: and nine thousand barrels of Russian all a day and
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Speaker 1: you take that away from one point one, that means
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Speaker 1: there's still about nine hundred thousand barrels of oil a
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Speaker 1: day that we are still producing less if we also
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Speaker 1: compensated for Russia. Just think if Biden would let us
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Speaker 1: produce those one point one million barrels again, then America
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Speaker 1: doesn't need a single drop of oil from Russia, or
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Speaker 1: Venezuela for that matter, or anyone else. But this goes
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Speaker 1: back to what I told you. The Democratic Party is
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Speaker 1: an ideology of punishment, and they will punish you until
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Speaker 1: you get in line. Head of Gas Buddy, which is
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Speaker 1: an app that follows gas prices, has actually now come
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Speaker 1: out saying we need to quote you need to cur
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Speaker 1: herb right your oil consumption. This goes back to what
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Speaker 1: I said. They want you to be punished until you
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Speaker 1: submit to go get that car that they demand, or
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Speaker 1: put on a coat in your house and stop getting
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Speaker 1: the heating oil. If you don't like the prices, then
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Speaker 1: you need to become energy independent. The head of gas
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Speaker 1: Bunnies now gas Buddies now calling for Americans to curb
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Speaker 1: their oil consumption. You look at what's going on in
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Speaker 1: Ukraine and how the Ukrainians are all banning together as
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Speaker 1: a country, We as Americans, can do the same thing
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Speaker 1: by curbing our oil consumption at least for a couple
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Speaker 1: of months on because you know what, that's probably better
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Speaker 1: than going to Venezuela. I've talked to those in the
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Speaker 1: Permian basin. Then they cannadas. So many supply challenges. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this guy, and this is part of what I've been saying.
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Speaker 1: You got gas prices now hitting the most expensive in
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Speaker 1: US history, breaking records from two thousand and eight, when
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Speaker 1: oddly enough, another Democrat was in office by the name
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Speaker 1: of Barack Obama. And now you've got these elitist out there. Well,
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Speaker 1: if you guys just band together, If you'll just band together.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like the same thing they answer to do
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Speaker 1: with COVID, Right, if you'll just help us stop the
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Speaker 1: you know the curve, right for two weeks, stop the
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Speaker 1: spread for two weeks. Just wear those masks for two weeks,
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Speaker 1: shut down your businesses for two weeks, take your kids
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Speaker 1: out of the schools for two weeks. Cancel everything for
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Speaker 1: two weeks. Then everything will be fine. It's all you
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Speaker 1: gotta do two weeks to flatten the curve. Right, remember that,
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Speaker 1: take everyone's freedom away from them, and be a team player.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't, then you're trying to kill us. Right.
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Speaker 1: If you don't, you're trying to kill all Americans. Right,
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Speaker 1: you're trying to kill grandma. If you just, you know,
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Speaker 1: if you'll just be a team player like the people
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Speaker 1: in Ukraine and don't go see grandma. Right, If you
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Speaker 1: just be a team player and start realizing that you
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Speaker 1: need to go get you a vest buck, be a
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Speaker 1: team player, and you need to start ride sharing to work.
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Speaker 1: Be a team player and suck it up and turn
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Speaker 1: your heat down, then everything will be just fine. And
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Speaker 1: they're lying to you. They're telling you that this president
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Speaker 1: can't do anything. As president is telling you they can't
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Speaker 1: do anything. Right. Instead of addressing gas prices, the BUYD
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Speaker 1: administration wants you to buy price electric cars. Hannity talked
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Speaker 1: about this last night spot on about this again ideology
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Speaker 1: a punishment you will suffer until you agree with the
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Speaker 1: way we tell you to live your life. Eero emissions
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Speaker 1: clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American
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Speaker 1: people as well. Last month, we announced a five billion
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Speaker 1: dollar investment to build that a nationwide electric vehicle charging
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Speaker 1: a network so the people from rural to suburban to
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Speaker 1: urban communities can all benefit. So we're going to put
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Speaker 1: five billion dollars right now, not into energy independence, but
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Speaker 1: into charging stations so you can drive around the country
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Speaker 1: while we tell you to go buy that fifty to
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Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars electric vehicle. From the gas savings of
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Speaker 1: driving an EV. As long as rural imagining, imagine America
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Speaker 1: at a strong president, vice president, and a transportation secretary
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Speaker 1: that had a little bit of life experience, this would
15:03
Speaker 1: be great for Tesla. I'm intrigued by Elon Musk. I
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Speaker 1: love innovation, I love new technology, and it's very expensive.
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Speaker 1: If people can't put the gas in their car, I
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Speaker 1: doubt they can afford some of these vehicles. So instead
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Speaker 1: of taking steps to lower gas prices, they just want
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Speaker 1: you all to go out and buy a pricey new
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Speaker 1: electric car. Look at your screen. By the way, this
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Speaker 1: is a great car. A friend of mine actually has one,
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Speaker 1: a Tesla Model three that'll run you about fifty grand.
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Speaker 1: I'm told from my friend he really loves it. The
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Speaker 1: new Ford Mustang electric car that costs about forty five grand.
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Speaker 1: The Chevy Bolt not exactly the most impressive car that
15:41
Speaker 1: I'd want to drive, but that's thirty grand, just to
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Speaker 1: name a few. And by the way, don't forget, after
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Speaker 1: you buy the car, you might have to install a
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Speaker 1: pricey home charging station that'll cost you a lot. And
15:52
Speaker 1: for example, in New York, and installation can cost between
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Speaker 1: two and ten thousand dollars from parts and labor. Whoopsie daisy,
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Speaker 1: Maybe some people who choose to pay the high gas prices. Now,
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Speaker 1: could these far left lunatics be any more tone deaf?
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Speaker 1: They are that out of touch. They don't seem to care,
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Speaker 1: completely disconnected from reality. They'd rather have higher inflation than
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Speaker 1: drill here, drill now and save money. They'd rather literally
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Speaker 1: push our allies into Putin's arms than to drill here,
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Speaker 1: drill now, frac here, frac now, and supply their energy needs.
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Speaker 1: You know the reaction Fox. By the way, I do
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Speaker 1: think that this is they're not detached from reality. I
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Speaker 1: disagree with that statement. This is the ideology of punishment
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Speaker 1: when you're filling up your car with five dollars gallon gas.
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is the one that banned drilling unfederallyland the
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Speaker 1: day came into office. Joe Biden's the one that signed
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Speaker 1: the executive order to close the Keystone Pipeline the day
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Speaker 1: he came into office. Joe Biden is the one that
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Speaker 1: came in and gave putin a pipeline to Europe. Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden's the guy that's calling thee and the guy who's
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Speaker 1: calling Saudi Arabia and releasing the twentieth hijacker of nine
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Speaker 1: eleven from Gitmo to beg them for more oil because
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Speaker 1: he refuses to drill here. Saudi Crown prints and the
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Speaker 1: UAE chic declined the President of the United States of
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Speaker 1: America's phone calls, and then Biden says, well, there's nothing
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Speaker 1: we can do here right can't do much right now.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday afternoon in Texas on the tarmac, he was asked
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Speaker 1: about this and what the American people can need to know,
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Speaker 1: and he said he can't do much right now to
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Speaker 1: stop prices gas prices from increasing. Biden now is attempting
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Speaker 1: to woo an array of the worst dictators and tyrants
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Speaker 1: people that commit genocide in the world, including Iran, including
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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, including Venezuela, where he sent a secret delegation
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Speaker 1: to go meet with Mdura to offset the impact of
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Speaker 1: Russians in vage of Ukraine on the energy markets. We're
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Speaker 1: now being told that Biden apparently is considering a trip
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Speaker 1: to Saudi Arabia this spring to resolve quote hard feelings
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Speaker 1: with a country's in fact a ruler who the US
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Speaker 1: intelligence community believes ordered the twenty eighteen operation of dismembering
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Speaker 1: a Washington Post calumnists with a bone saw. You may
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Speaker 1: remember that story. We're also being told the US diplomats
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Speaker 1: are working to broker a new nuclear deal with a
18:16
Speaker 1: Ran in exchange for sanctions relief, and other diplomats have
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Speaker 1: been dispatched to smooth over another riff with Venezuela's socialist
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Speaker 1: strongman Maduro, who, by the way, the US government does
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Speaker 1: not even recognize the country's legitimate ruler because we shouldn't,
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Speaker 1: but apparently we may change that status. Biden canceled that
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Speaker 1: construction of the Keison XO pipeline last year, attempted to
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Speaker 1: halt all new drilling permits on public land last year,
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Speaker 1: and now Biden's having to signal a change in tone
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Speaker 1: towards Saudi Arabia after taking office, with drawing US support
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Speaker 1: for the Saudi led intervention Yeoman Civil War. It's the
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Speaker 1: same guy that didn't sanction the Crown Prince after the
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Speaker 1: murder of that Washington Post and the dismemberment of the
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Speaker 1: Washington Post writer. And now they're not even taking our
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Speaker 1: phone calls because they realize that when you have an
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Speaker 1: ideology of punishment with this administration, they own you something
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Speaker 1: else that Biden's also doing right now, which is just
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Speaker 1: a lie, as he's also blaming oil companies for these
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Speaker 1: price hikes, and that means the next option would be
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Speaker 1: for him to do basically price manipulation, and if that happens,
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Speaker 1: you get us back into the scenario we ran back
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Speaker 1: in the late nineteen seventies when we actually tried to
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Speaker 1: do that, Jimmy Carter tried to do it. It It was
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Speaker 1: a disaster, and everybody knows that that was a disaster,
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Speaker 1: and now that's what he's talking about at this moment.
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Speaker 1: So everybody's a bad guy. But him right. Biden's advisor
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Speaker 1: also went on TV today said no amount of domestic
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Speaker 1: production would reduce gas prices, and we need to transition, again,
19:55
Speaker 1: forcing you into submission, saying we must transition. You just
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Speaker 1: need to get over it. You need to insulate your
19:59
Speaker 1: house better. You need to go buy this electric car,
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Speaker 1: and you just spend the five ten grand and put
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Speaker 1: the charging station in your house, and you just need it.
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Speaker 1: Stuck it up, America. The medium and long term, I
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Speaker 1: think it's the path and the trajectory is clear. There
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Speaker 1: is no amount of domestic production that we can do
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Speaker 1: when we are dealing with a volatile global commodity where
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Speaker 1: the price is set globally. There's no amount of domestic
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Speaker 1: production we can do to reduce or eliminate our vulnerability
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Speaker 1: as a country to that volatility. The only way to
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Speaker 1: do that is to reduce the energy intensity of the
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Speaker 1: economy overall, which means shifting to cleaner sources of energy.
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Speaker 1: Every one of these people saying this to you right
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Speaker 1: now are rich and they can afford it. Ted Cruz
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Speaker 1: came out saying that the Biden administration's energy policy is
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Speaker 1: not only incoherent, but even what they're making and the
20:48
Speaker 1: dots are trying to connect. Just doesn't make any sense
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Speaker 1: at all. Home, there's a record setting pain at the pump,
20:53
Speaker 1: getting worse by the day. Americans now pain an average
20:56
Speaker 1: of four dollars and twenty five cents a gallon. That's
20:58
Speaker 1: up a dollar forty six from the same time last year. Meanwhile,
21:02
Speaker 1: President Biden announcing a plan to ban Russian oil imports
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Speaker 1: while eyeing other very problematic nations to fill a short fall.
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Speaker 1: Texas Senator Ted Cruiser, Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee,
21:12
Speaker 1: joins US now and one of the things that I
21:14
Speaker 1: wanted to get your take on was when you're from Texas,
21:17
Speaker 1: Senator from Texas, and when President Biden went to Texas yesterday,
21:22
Speaker 1: he had just announced a ban on Russian oil. He
21:25
Speaker 1: went and did an important event there about the burn
21:27
Speaker 1: pits from Iraq, but he didn't meet with anybody in
21:30
Speaker 1: Texas about domestic energy. You know, I got to say
21:34
Speaker 1: this administration's policy when it comes to energy is completely incoherent.
21:39
Speaker 1: President Biden started literally his first day in office basically
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Speaker 1: declaring war on domestic energy production. He shut down the
21:46
Speaker 1: Keystone pipeline on the first day in office, killed eleven
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Speaker 1: thousand jobs, eight thousand union jobs. With a stroke of
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Speaker 1: a pen. He halted all new leasing on federal lands,
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Speaker 1: both onshore and offshore, and he stopped developed in an Anoir,
22:00
Speaker 1: a small region of Alaska that is incredibly rich in
22:04
Speaker 1: oil reserves. He shut them all down. His agencies have
22:07
Speaker 1: been waging war on domestic production, and we've seen domestic
22:10
Speaker 1: production dropping and dropping and dropping, and bizarrely enough, Biden
22:14
Speaker 1: combines that with being the best thing that ever happened
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Speaker 1: to Vladimir Putin, and the best thing that ever happened
22:20
Speaker 1: to Iran, and the best thing that ever happened to Venezuela.
22:22
Speaker 1: Last week, the Biden administration sent their officials to Venezuela
22:26
Speaker 1: saying they want to buy oil from Nicholas Maduro. They're
22:29
Speaker 1: in Vienna trying to negotiate a deal that they want
22:31
Speaker 1: to buy oil from the Ayatola in Iran, and Biden
22:34
Speaker 1: last year waves sanctions on the nord Stream Too natural
22:38
Speaker 1: gas pipeline, which is what caused the invasion of Ukraine.
22:42
Speaker 1: Their policy just makes no sense. Yeah, he's right, their
22:45
Speaker 1: policy doesn't make any sense. But what I do know
22:49
Speaker 1: is that people are waking up to this. New Yorkers
22:52
Speaker 1: are waking up to this. They're angry. Listen to this
22:55
Speaker 1: New York driver. Joe Biden says, you're polluting if you
23:00
Speaker 1: don't drive an electric car. What do you have to say?
23:03
Speaker 1: How am I gonna work? He needs to keep in
23:05
Speaker 1: mind he's been rich forever. Like a lot of people,
23:07
Speaker 1: can't just oh no, I'm just gonna switch to what teslo.
23:10
Speaker 1: He better focus to the gas price, not about the pollution.
23:13
Speaker 1: So if he's gonna support us and basically give us
23:17
Speaker 1: some electric cars, I don't see why not. But yeah,
23:19
Speaker 1: he can't give an nobody a cause it's pretty accepted
23:21
Speaker 1: that we all plute. It's part of our lives. Everybody
23:24
Speaker 1: else is you're pluting if you do a lot of things.
23:27
Speaker 1: I don't really care about it, and says, to be honest,
23:29
Speaker 1: Joe Biden doesn't know what he's doing and what he's
23:32
Speaker 1: doing to this country. Joe Biden, there it is blank,
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. These are New Yorkers, by the way, all
23:40
Speaker 1: people at the gas pumps in New York getting gas.
23:44
Speaker 1: And that's what they were saying to the news Sendor
23:47
Speaker 1: Murphy though, Hey, this is all about and I go
23:50
Speaker 1: back to it. It's an ideology of punishment, Sendor Murphy.
23:54
Speaker 1: Only renewable energy can make American independent from dictators oil
23:58
Speaker 1: that we're begging for their oil because we're not drilling
24:01
Speaker 1: in America A supplies as as you note, it's only
24:04
Speaker 1: a small slice of US energy needs, just eight percent.
24:06
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, in the second half of February,
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Speaker 1: the Department of Energy reported that imports dropped to zero
24:13
Speaker 1: as US companies cut ties with Russia. So I guess
24:17
Speaker 1: I wonder, given the fact that American companies were already
24:19
Speaker 1: doing this, do you what do you say about this
24:24
Speaker 1: band Was it necessary? Even was the free market already
24:27
Speaker 1: doing that well? As the United States economy continues to
24:30
Speaker 1: rev up, there was certainly going to be an increased
24:33
Speaker 1: demand on energy consumption, and thus you always have the
24:38
Speaker 1: possibility of private companies bringing in Russian energy. I think
24:42
Speaker 1: it makes sense to have this policy on the books.
24:44
Speaker 1: I just don't know that we should overhype its impact. Ultimately,
24:49
Speaker 1: the broader sanctions that we have levied on Russian banks,
24:52
Speaker 1: and news of all of these private companies from Starbucks
24:56
Speaker 1: to Coca Cola to MasterCard pulling out of Russia that's
25:00
Speaker 1: really where the primary impact is going to be. But
25:01
Speaker 1: let's just admit the insanity of a US economy that
25:05
Speaker 1: continues to run on oil that is provided to us
25:08
Speaker 1: by dictators. The reality is, I love this. This is
25:12
Speaker 1: a senator, a Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee saying
25:15
Speaker 1: it's insane that we are running on oil as a
25:17
Speaker 1: nation from dictators. Well, then why are you so against
25:22
Speaker 1: us drilling in America? I agree with your premise there,
25:26
Speaker 1: But then listen to the connection he makes after saying
25:29
Speaker 1: that impact is going to be. But let's just admit
25:31
Speaker 1: the insanity of a US economy that continues to run
25:35
Speaker 1: on oil that is provided to us by dictators. The
25:38
Speaker 1: reality is, if we're not getting this oil from Russia,
25:41
Speaker 1: we're likely going to be importing more from another brutal
25:44
Speaker 1: dictator in Saudi Arabia, for instance, or we may have
25:47
Speaker 1: to go to Venezuela for oil. We should ultimately learn
25:49
Speaker 1: our lesson here and become energy independent and choose to
25:53
Speaker 1: invest in clean domestic energy so we never have to
25:56
Speaker 1: choose between one dictator versus another. There it is, Yeah,
26:00
Speaker 1: you just look, we gotta we gotta if we're we
26:03
Speaker 1: gotta stop doing this folks right right, We to stop
26:07
Speaker 1: getting oil from dictators in Saudi Arabia. For instance, we
26:10
Speaker 1: may have to go to Venezuela. But let's let's be clear.
26:14
Speaker 1: We need to learn our last send and become energy
26:16
Speaker 1: independent by investing in clean domestic energy so that we
26:21
Speaker 1: don't have to give this in any money of these
26:22
Speaker 1: dictators anymore. So again, go buy the car we're telling
26:26
Speaker 1: you to buy. Elitism right now is what this also is.
26:31
Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert on soaring gas prices. Hell, I'll pay fifteen
26:35
Speaker 1: dollars a gallon because I drive a test law. I'll
26:42
Speaker 1: tell you what I will never complain about a destination
26:43
Speaker 1: wedding again. Russia has been hit with a series of
26:47
Speaker 1: crippling sanctions, and it looks like there's more to come,
26:50
Speaker 1: because the US and its European allies are now discussing
26:54
Speaker 1: banning imports of Russian oil. Take that boating. We're not
26:58
Speaker 1: gonna buy our gas from a war craft. We're gonna
27:00
Speaker 1: buy it from the good guys Saundy Arabia. But it's
27:06
Speaker 1: gonna cost Since the invasion, oil prices have skyrocketed. Today,
27:10
Speaker 1: the average gas price in America hit an all time
27:13
Speaker 1: record high of over four dollars per gallon. Okay, that's things,
27:17
Speaker 1: but a clean conscience is worth a bucker two. I'm
27:21
Speaker 1: willing to pay. It's important. By the way, it's not
27:30
Speaker 1: a bucker two, you toolbag. It's not a bucker two.
27:34
Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert's not a buck or two. And you would
27:37
Speaker 1: know that if you've gone to the gas station. One
27:39
Speaker 1: hundred dollars instead of forty dollars is sixty dollars. These
27:45
Speaker 1: people are horrible human beings because they don't care if
27:50
Speaker 1: you suffer. Their ideology is a punishment until you do
27:55
Speaker 1: what they tell you to do. And if you don't
27:58
Speaker 1: think what he just said was it lead us an enough,
28:00
Speaker 1: listen to how he ends it. I'm willing to pay
28:03
Speaker 1: four dollars a gallon. Hell, I'll pay fifteen dollars a
28:06
Speaker 1: gallon because I drive a Tesla. Right now, people all
28:11
Speaker 1: over the world are trying to find inventive ways to
28:14
Speaker 1: help ordinary Ukraine. I mean, I love this right, I'll
28:16
Speaker 1: pay fifteen dollars. Hell, I'll pay fifteen dollars gallon because
28:19
Speaker 1: I drive a Tesla and so should you. And on
28:22
Speaker 1: the same day Secretary Transtation Mayor Pete was pillared for
28:27
Speaker 1: touting electric vehicles a solution to rising gas prices. He
28:31
Speaker 1: lauded the nationwide electric vehicle charging network that Biden administrations pushing, saying,
28:35
Speaker 1: quote the America that Americans from role to urban to
28:38
Speaker 1: suburban communities can all benefit from gas savings of driving
28:42
Speaker 1: an electric vehicle. Center Tech Cruz fired back by saying,
28:47
Speaker 1: tell me you're a liberal elite without telling me you're
28:49
Speaker 1: a liberal elite. Yeah, we're gonna give you all those cars. Right,
28:53
Speaker 1: you just gotta stop worrying about gas prices. Just buy
28:55
Speaker 1: an electric vehicle. So all you gotta do buy an
28:59
Speaker 1: electric vehicle. Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for
29:03
Speaker 1: the American people as well. Last month, we announced a
29:06
Speaker 1: five billion dollar investment to build out a nationwide electric
29:09
Speaker 1: vehicle charging a network so the people from rural to
29:12
Speaker 1: suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas
29:16
Speaker 1: savings of driving an ev This is an ideology of punishment,
29:25
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29:29
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